The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-06
FACTS AND NEWS.

IneIe are o,U35 GTanQ Army posts IN
the United States.
New York hotels charge more than
those OF any other city.
Lesd pencils are said to be consumed
at the rate OF Dot, 900 day.
The st. Paul ice palace is pa feet by
1874 feet in size, and the tower is l35
feet high.
The title of soil in Mexico in popu-
laton of some 10 100000 is vested IN
900 or 6 1000 persons.
Three and a half million acres ofland
have been burned over in Texas the
current year by prairie fires.
There is an Indian reservation of
| 70 ,GU0 acres in North Carolina Inhabited
by aoOut 5000 Cherokees.
There has been a decrease in the
consumption of Kentucky whisky dur
Ing the past year of nearly 1000, COO
gallons.
Minneapolis is growing fast according
to her own showing. Last year over 1000
buildings were erected, at a cost of Sill :
600 900.
1t is said that there are even now
eleven American girls engaged to give
up their hands and fortunes for foreign
titles IN marriage.
The Mediterranean is quite shallow.
A drying 10 of go feet would leave
three different seas, and Africa would
be jointly with Italy.
There is strip of land on Broadway.
| New York, eight inches wide by 100 feet
deep for which the owner asks 5000 an
inch front.
A New Y ork undertaken charges $l75
| for casket that costs him $40, and
testified in court that he did not think
that $50 was too profit to make on it.
The new French explosive melenite,
which Is said to be mere powerful than
dynamite or nitro glycerine, in touch
and appearance resembles yellow clay.
AT the top of a soldiers monument
at Sing Sing is the figure of kneeling
angel, and it is proposed to take this
figure off and substitute the figure of a
soldier.
The use of cocoa in the United States
has increased more than skiold since
1860, while that of tea and coffee with
in the same perion, has NOT quite
doubled.
More patents for inventions are issued
in the United States than in any two
European countries. England stands
secbnd in order, France th!rc and Ger
many fourth.
A locomotive now building at the
Rhode Island Locomotive Works is
intended TO draw tram between PROV
idence and New London, siXty-tWO
miles, III sixty minutes.
There are nearly 5000 INDECENT SOL
diers who do not receive pensions, who
are supported in almShouses and other
public charitable institutions in the
United States.
"Old Scratch" is the demon Skratti,
who still survives in the superstitions of
Northern Europe "Old Nick" is none
other than Nicker, the dangerous
water demon of Scandinavian legend.
When the census was taken, six years
ago, ST. Paul had 5000 inhabitants. 1t
claims 15U 900 to-day, and 100000 for
the two towns of st. Paul and Minneap-
oils which some day will meet each
other.
Use estimates Of the cost of the Nicar-
aqua Canal vary from $75 600, 900 to
Sl0c, 0OO,00 1t is 500 miles north of the
Panama Canal and l72 miles long, 1I9
miles being through lakes and rivers.
The public debt of Canada has in
creased SIS a minute during the whole
of Sir John Macdonald administration,
allowing ten working hours. a day and
twenty-six working days Ii the month.
Toronto Globe.
Rabbi Brown of the New York Tenn
pie Gates of Hope says that one cause
of the prosperity of the Jews is the
advantage gained from the leisure of ]
the half-holiday on Friday to prepare
them for their Saturday Sabbath.
Says the proprietor of aSt. Louis type
foundry: Here we are on the verge of
1888, which creates triple demand for
the figure 8. This triple use of figures
will not occur again until 1911, 1899,
1000, 2111, 2122, 22O2, 2212, 1927" etc.
The Emperor of China is the shortest
monarch in the world, being only
feet tall; The Emperor William of Ger
many is the tallest, being just feet;
Prince Albert of Germany, nephew of
the Emperor. is feet inches tall; the
Emperor OF Russia is nearly 6 feet.
a girl working in one of the Biddeford
mills is the thirty-second child of the
same father and mother, and twenty
three of her brothers and sisters still
live and write to her every week. She
receives more letters than any woman
in Biddeford. So says the Biddeford
Journal.
a peculiar natural substance has
been found in Georgia. yellow mater
ial, very much like beeswax, which,
when shaved off with knife rolls up
ike that article 1t is kind of rock,
and while there is nothing about it that
burns. it becomes as hard as flint when
heated.
The surface roads in New York City, |
as appears in the reports to the Rail |
road Commissioner carried IN the year, |
ending September 30th last. 2l0 032, 4S4 |
passengers, against 191, 1883 in the |
wear before. IN the. same years the |
elevated roads carried lis. los, 59l and |
103, 702, 729 passengers.
An elderly gentleman who delights liz
contributes this: If |
George Washington. when he was forty
eight years of age, had stepped lntJ
railroad office and pawned his little
Ratchet for ticket to the planet Mars.
he would at the rate Of so miles an hour,
have arrived there this year"